Riverside, Tasmania

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Coordinates: 41°25′12″S 147°06′11″E / 41.4200°S 147.1030°E / -41.4200; 147.1030
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Riverside
Federal division(s)
Lyons, Bass
Suburbs around Riverside:
Bridgenorth
Legana
Tamar River
Rosevale, Westwood Riverside Tamar River
Westwood Blackstone Heights Trevallyn

Riverside is a rural and urban locality in the local government areas of

Launceston region of Tasmania, Australia. The locality is about 39 kilometres (24 mi) south-east of the town of Beaconsfield. The 2016 census has a population of 6472 for the state suburb of Riverside.[1]
It is a residential
Woolworths supermarket, a bakery, a pharmacist and several retail shops.[2]

History

Riverside was gazetted as a locality in 1958.[3]

Geography

The

Tamar River forms the north-eastern boundary and part of the south-eastern. The South Esk River also forms part of the south-eastern.[4]

Road infrastructure

The West Tamar Highway (A7) passes through from south-east to north-east. Route C734 (Ecclestone Road) starts at an intersection with A7 and runs south-west and west until it exits.[3][5]

Facilities

IGA supermarket and St David's Church. Over the road is a restaurant, pub and bottle shop, as well as the 3.5 star Best Western
Riverside motel.

Though mostly built in the 1960s, Riverside contains a wide range of buildings, with older

weatherboard style homes prominent along the West Tamar Highway and area's closer to the city, many of which being either Edwardian or Art Deco
in style, while more modern homes are located in the western and northern areas. Few buildings in Riverside date from the 1800s, though the notable exception being Cormiston House, a former estate house from the mid-1800s, located on a large property at the northern extremity of Riverside.

The western half of Riverside, accessed by Pomona Road, was built in the 1950s as the hydro-electric village of Marrawaylee to serve the construction of the Trevallyn Power Station. Now known as West Riverside, this minor suburb contains a single shop, the St Francis Church as well as the old hydro lodge, now modified into a private residence. The northwestern region of West Riverside has recently been the site of Riverside's most rapid urban growth, with new suburbs now connected onto Pomona Road North, Guildford Road, Tamar Rise and Balmoral Avenue.

References

  1. ^ a b "2016 Census Quick Stats Riverside (Tas.)". quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. Australian Bureau of Statistics. 23 October 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Riverside Shopping Centre, Riverside, TAS". Macquarie. Archived from the original on 7 August 2008. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
  3. ^ a b "Placenames Tasmania – Riverside". Placenames Tasmania. Select “Search”, enter "25L", click “Search”, select row, map is displayed, click “Details”. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  4. ^ Google (13 September 2020). "Riverside, Tasmania" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  5. ^ "Tasmanian Road Route Codes" (PDF). Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water & Environment. May 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
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